United Nations Peacekeeping Pledges

The demand for UN Peacekeeping is at an all time high. Member States and civil society continue to call on UN Peacekeeping to do more in increasingly inhospitable, volatile and dangerous environments. Today’s UN Peacekeeping missions are unprecedented in both the scale and scope of their mandates, facing increasingly dangerous situations where peacekeepers are being deployed where there is no peace to keep and face regular attack. In an effort to fill the capabilities gap, Member States were called to pledge necessary capabilities to ensure the success of UN peacekeeping missions.

Summary of pledges made in 2017

In November 2017, pledges were made for peace operations in Vancouver, Canada. Below are the pledges reported at the Canadian Defense Ministerial.

Engineering company assigned to UNMISS in 2018, field hospital, groundwater drilling, rapid deployment staff officers, organization of a multinational peacekeeping exercise, exchange of instructors and students with a number of countries, delivery of course on sustainable development approaches in peacekeeping

Vietnam

Replace a Level 2 UK country hospital in UNMISS in 2018, mine clearing engineering company

C-130J transport aircraft to return to MINUSMA in 2019 in the framework of a prolonged multinational rotation of military aircrafts in Mali, continue to offer camp installations at MINUSMA for all rotation partners, New C-130J at MINUSMA (by bilateral discussions)

United Kingdom

Extension of technical support at UNMISS for a year, launch of a chief of staff network for Women, Peace and Security

Renewing pledge for up to 10 staff officers and up to 5 military observers to MINUSMA, support to POC training, firefighting unit for UNIFIL, 1 military observers to MINURSO, commitment to UNIFIL community outreach,2 peacekeepers in 2018, POC training, nuclear biological chemical (NBC) team and Staff officers to UNIFIL (2018)

Participation with Transport Aviation Unit Rotational Concept in MINUSMA, Quick reaction force in MINUSCA, participate in EU training in Mali and CAR, presence in INAMA and in Verification Mission in Colombia, contribution to Trust Fund for Victims of SEA

Increased financial support to African Peace Facility, support for G5 Sahel, administrative arrangements between EEAS and DPKO/DFS, facilitate cooperation between EU/UN, cooperation on rapid response, international conference on G5 Sahel, training and capacity building

Preparing a helicopter unit and a level 2 medical team, deployed staff officers to MINUSCA, preparing an engineering unit, reigsters with PCRS, looking for opportunities for cooperation, form alliances with like-minded countires on WPS, up to 40 military and police observers for Verification Mission in Colombia, French language training

Strengthen cooperation on rapid response, including modalities for a bridging or parallel EU operations, enable mutual EU-UN support in theatres of operations and hand-over of wquipment and facilities, enhance/exchange information and analysis, increase EU support to African Peace Facility from €750 to €900 mil

Specialized police team for investigation and transnational crime, C-130 aircraft for 10 months, camp facility (MINUSMA), staff officers, consideration of a combat engineering company with Counter-IED cpacbility in 2017, capacity building for East Africa standby force

UK military support to UNMISS: logistics, role 2 medical treatment facility, military design and construction force, capacity building for UN operations in Somalia, short term training teams for Somalia missions

United States

Support to UN leadership development, Enhanced training to prevent sexual exploitation and other conduct and discipline issues, Assistance in synchronizing capacity building for peacekeepers, Support for UN rapid deployment, and advanced technology to improve the efficiency of UN operations

Summary of pledges made in 2015

In 2015, pledges amounted to more than 40,000 troops and police, as well as critical enablers including more than 40 helicopters, 22 engineering companies, 11 naval and riverine units, and 13 field hospitals. The following information is based upon declarations made in 2015. There is limited public data available on pledges which have been delivered upon.

Detailed Pledges made in 2015 by Country

UN Member State

Pledges (to)

USA

Double the number of military advisers (as of Aug 2015: 34), $2 million for training African forces for peacekeeping, $2 million for training on countering improvised explosive devices, provide greater logistical and engineering support

Transport aircraft, police experts, capacity building with AU, considers combat engineers with counter-IED. Norway will also extend the camp facilities for the headquarters of the intelligence unit in MINUSMA for another 10 months